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pythonis
at Mon Mar 20 01:18:29 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pythonis ]
"By your post it would seem you think a normal/common/run of the mill (In your own words) BCI is worth much less money, thus also making it worth less as a living breathing creature.
Also, one reason to avoid picking up a "common" in a case like this, if he wants morphs but starts out with a normal whats not to say the normal would be given less attention since, as you seem to point out they are worthless enough to purchase to "crawl before running" with once he does add morphs to his collection"
not worth less, but definitely costs less. maybe i have this attitude because i make less than $20,000 a year. but if i was starting out in the boa husbandry life id definitely want to start out with taking care of a common bci that cost me $50 at a show than paying $5k and it ending up dying because i didnt know what i was doing. kind of like when your kid wants to learn how to drive. you dont go out and buy him a rolls to practice with do you? no you give him the cheap clunker. no im not saying that a normal bci is worth any less as a creature than a high dollar morph but i am a thrifty person and know the value of a dollar. if by chance a snake i purchased did die by my lack of knowledge in taking care of it then i would be able to at least get over it quicker if i had paid less for then say having to save up for a year and a half to buy it. ive seen people in here and other sites say things like " ive owned a couple garter snakes and im thinking about getting an ETB". i think to myself, this guy is nuts. hes not even an experienced person with exotics and here he is wanting to jump from the bottom rung to the top. that is how i read the original post. "ive owned balls but now i want to own boas". well imo, he should start out small and work his way up. and im sure he would give it no less attention than a snake of a different price. im sorry if i seemed to be saying that. in a nutshell, i was speaking through my wallet when i typed the post. maybe i was wrong in doing that. maybe the guy is a multimillionaire. i apologize for being a person that has a limit of how much to spend and a belief in how much something is worth to me. i know that is gonna get me some hell from people but honestly i dont believe that any morph is worth what they are being sold for. thats my honest opinion and im entitled to it. honestly i dont think there should be morphs. i believe that man has overstepped his bounds when cross breeding snakes or any other animal. we should never have startedcrossbreeding animals. we are playing God and that isnt right. the only morphs out there should be the ones that just every so often happen to occur in the wild and that is because God put it there. i could see paying a vast amount for an albino anery leucistic ghost bcc if morphs only occured in the wild because i know it would be one of a kind.
im beginning to ramble here so if the guy wants to own high dollar morphs then more power to him. i wouldnt because i am against the morph idea and even if i werent im too much of a cheap bastard to pay that kind of money for them ..even if they do look nice and are still living breathing creatures.
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RE: Pythonis quick question. - pythonis, Mon Mar 20 01:18:29 2006